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three-peat

[ three-peet, three-peet ]

Trademark.
  1. a third consecutive victory, as in a major sports championship.


verb (used without object)

  1. to win a third consecutive victory.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of three-peat1

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90; three + (re)peat
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Example Sentences

But none of it matters if they don't win another Super Bowl and get that 'three-peat'.

From BBC

Twenty-two years later, Serio is playing in his fifth Paralympic Games, hoping to lead the U.S. men to a three-peat and add to a resume that already includes two golds, a bronze and a 2023 world championship.

If the Americans don’t triumph in Paris, it would be the team’s first world championship three-peat of failure.

Hurley could go for the three-peat — or go to the franchise that trademarked that term in 1989 thanks to coach Pat Riley as the Lakers unsuccessfully sought a third consecutive title.

Yet Bryan also took clear pleasure in having reached such rarefied air: His vintage Lakers shirt commemorated the team’s early-2000s NBA Finals three-peat; the night before, he wore one from the second of those three championships.

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